This morning on CNN Joe Lieberman took it upon himself to peddle the Hannity-Limbaugh Brand Talking Point to bash Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Crooks & Liars has the video. ThinkProgress has the transcript:
LIEBERMAN: I respectfully and strongly disagree with Arlen Specter and with Nancy Pelosi. I believe her visit to Syria was a mistake, that […]

This is truly unconscionable abuse of executive power. President Bush has used a recess appointment to make Swift Boat funder Sam Fox US ambassador to Belgium. Bush had withdrawn Fox’s name from consideration after it became clear that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, under the leadership of Chris Dodd and John Kerry, would not have […]

Every presidential candidate brings a unique set of qualifications to the table when they run for office. Some have executive experience, but no foreign policy experience (Giuliani, Romney), while others have extensive experience in foreign policy, but have never been the head of a government (Brownback, McCain, Gingrich). Greg Sargent accurately points out that unless […]

As Scarce documented when the hearing on Sam Fox’s nomination for the ambassadorship of Belgium took place last week, Joe Lieberman is one of the prime allies and advocates for this major financial backer of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Today the Hartford Courant explores the Lieberman-Fox relationship in greater detail.
Fox has come under […]

Not the scare the crap out of you before the sun’s even come up, but Sean-Paul Kelley of The Agonist has the most comprehensive encapsulation of how the drum-beat to war in Iraq has proceeded.
Fears of Iranian economic dominance in Iran are being stoked, although the story is already weeks, if not months old. […]

As a law student I am exposed every day to new areas of our legal system. It is a truly powerful tool–arguably the foundation of our society. However, with each new doctrine and epiphany I am forced to remember our system’s shortcomings: its costs, its potential for abuse, and its selectiveness. Of […]

Atlas Shrugs on the Bolton “resignation”:
Speechless …………….. hardly surprising. There is no way a man of John Bolton’s character would be the willing mouthpiece for the terrible foreign policy direction the administration has taken.
There is no way he would lie and put a happy face on something so very bad. What a […]

When in 2003 the Pentagon screened Italian filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo’s brilliant film “The Battle of Algiers,” the Washington Post reported that a Pentagon flier promoting the screening read as follows:
How to win a battle against terrorism and lose the war of ideas. … Children shoot soldiers at point blank range. Women plant bombs in cafes. […]

…If you want it. Coming on the heels of the news that more than 665,000 Iraqis have lost their lives due to the invasion and occupation of their homeland, the responsibility weighs even heavier on all our shoulders to end the war now. In my most recent post I discussed the fine documentary The […]

For more than a month, Keith Olberman continues what many Democracts fail to do: fight back. In his show’s closing comments, Olberman said;
Yesterday at a fundraiser for an Arizona congressman, Mr. Bush claimed, quote, “177 of the opposition party said, ‘You know, we don’t think we ought to be listening to the conversations of […]